Collins v. Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 federal appellate · 2 district · 50 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““(1) A negotiable instrument, payable to bearer, or indorsed in blank, produced by a transferee suing to recover its contents, is, when received in evidence, clothed with the prima facie presumption that he became the holder of it for value at its date in the usual course of business, without notice of any thing to impeach his title. “(2) The title of a bona fide holder for value of an accepted draft, indorsed • in blank, is not affected by the fact that the party from whom he received it before its maturity had possession of it for certain purposes, and misappropriated it.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In re Troy & Cohoes Shirt Co.

2. ““Where the supposed defect or infirmity in the title of the instrument appears on its face at the time of the transfer, the question whether the party who took it had notice or not is, in general, a question of construction, and must be determined by the court as matter of law. Andrews v. Pond, 13 Pet. 65 [ 10 L. Ed. 61 ]; Fowler v. Brantly, 14 Pet. 318 [ 10 L. Ed. 473 ]; Brown v. Davis, 3 T. R, 86.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. In re Troy & Cohoes Shirt Co.